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Especially when they die after 2 years. Bought 3 G4 Pros direct from Ubiquiti and two are dead. Apparently it's just the POE daughterboard but my RMA requests were rejected due to being out of warranty. My cheap Lorex cameras have been running for 8 years now.

The xkcd chart starts at 20,000 BC, not 2,000. Well before permanent settlements, agriculture, trade, etc. that our current civilization relies upon.

the longer we wait, the more power these entities will have.

Trains are more dangerous? One predictable, well mainted vehicle operated by a professional versus many cars?

Do you have a source for those numbers? They don't agree with the Fed's statistics: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ALTSALES

(assuming our model of the universe is correct and complete)

you can build the largest reservoir in the world, but if water consumption and evaporation exceed precipitation in the watershed you're on borrowed time.

clearly we need a social credit system where citizens are scored based on their financial history, trustworthiness, charitable efforts, and praising the government on social media.

I agree with you regarding lax enforcement, especially in the last few years. But this is also cultural. We have the technology to enforce traffic laws via sensors but even then they are implemented they are often removed by the next local election or blown to bits with buckshot.

My state has targets for acceptable rates of annual pedestrian deaths when designing intersections. I find the fact that we elect to sacrifice lives in order to bump up vehicles-per-hour stats rather disturbing. Again nothing new but helps explain why the US is an outlier.

While this driver appears to be facing homicide by vehicle charges in addition to fleeing the scene, it is very common in the US for a driver to kill a pedestrian and face no criminal charges or loss of driving privileges as long as they stop and dial 911. While out walking I often think of a quote from a Freakomomics podcast that goes something like 'the best way to get away will killing someone in the US is to hit them with your car'.

The high rate of pedestrian deaths is a result of policy regarding road design, pedestrian infrastructure and lenient criminal charges. The driving culture is also to blame. Driving is a god given right. Cars equal freedom, and the bigger the better. Pedestrians are a nuisance and cyclists are the enemy.

Vehicles sold now are too fast for their intended purpose. You can buy a Toyota Camry with 300 HP and a 0-60 time of 5.1 seconds. Twenty years ago that was Porsche 911 territory. The upcoming Hummer EV touts a 3.0 second 0-60 and weighs in at 9000 lbs. Insane

reduced social interaction in a suburban setting could simultaneously explain both the psychological harm to young men and the elevated 'way worse' things in cities.

then let's play into this and charge for oversized parking spots

Human's ability to concentrate is just one of many, many problems associated with increasing atmospheric CO2. We can't ventilate the troposphere.

Would these groups still choose to share a kitchen, bathrooms, etc if they could find co-located, individual units at a similar, affordable price? I doubt it.

Likely related to their satellite ground station as-a-service: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/

If you're already overweight you should combine control of calorie intake with exercise. The only way fat leaves the body (besides surgery) is by exhaling it as CO2

Sadly the active radar sensor on the pictured SMAP satellite failed shortly after launch [0]. I've been looking for news on NASA's NIAC Phase 2 R-MXAS studies which, while it looks like it would require some serious material science breakthroughs, could provide near-continuous soil moisture data over an entire continent which suddenly seems even more useful [1].

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-soil-moisture-radar-...

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_...

A lack of machine readable tax code.

I find it curious that the 'climate change industry' is a powerful, unwavering monolith in your mind and yet you don't mention the petroleum industry's deep pockets and incentives to maintain the status quo.

I got a degree in climate science but took a job writing code because the pay was terrible unless and until you become a professor. My chemical engineer buddy went to work at Exxon Mobile and started with a salary 4x greater than my best climate science related offer.

I'd enjoy the tailgate/house party before the game but I'd just stay home at kickoff. We were close enough that we had to make sure the windows were closed otherwise the cheers of the crowd would tip off the next play due to the broadcast delay.

Towards the end of my time as a student at the University of Michigan I stopped buying tickets to the games. Between the crowds, security, drunk strangers, the sun in September or the cold rain in November - it's just more fun and more comfortable to watch at home with friends.

These are clearly driven individuals who will excel anywhere. In fact when you consider grade inflation, they'd be better of going taking a scholarship from a flagship state university. Especially for STEM majors.

Affirmative action is an attempt to break the cycle of educational under-performance for certain groups in America. It's a blunt tool that needs to be improved, not discarded.

This clever thought is common enough to have a page on Skeptical Science.

https://skepticalscience.com/co2-measurements-uncertainty.ht...

There is no reason a chat app can't be multiplatform, plus the total cost to transition to iPhones would be in the thousands. Most of them would spring $3-5 a month for a platform secure though.

Is there a paid secure messaging platform anyone can recommend? I don't want drag my friends and family to another platform only have it sell its users to the highest bidder.

If you use a flat fee broker on my local MLS, you must respond to all requests for information or showing within 24 hours or the MLS will pull your listing. I was warned that agents are very aware of this and that you better be ready to answer calls at all hours, return every call you receive and to document the entirety of that process. Google Voice has been very useful in that regard.

I would argue that the reason is because they're tired of being pestered by would-be listing agents. I have a property listed as FSBO for the last 4 weeks and so far I have received 67 calls from listing agents, all documented in a spreadsheet so I can block them via Google Voice.

Or it may be that buyer's agents actively steer their clients away from FSBO properties which one person revealed to me during a showing even though the listing states I'll pay 2.5% to the buyer. I requested and now have that in writing from this buyer in case I feel like filing a complaint. You should have seen the agent's face when I said my email was in the listing and she could ask me any questions directly if she liked. An agent mortified by the thought of direct communication between buyer and the person who knows the property best.

Actual potential buyers send emails. Agents seem to only communicate via phone, probably because they believe they can charm you.

Actual map is here: https://ig.ft.com/gb-broadband-speed-map/

Nature news article on the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04992-7

Sounds like we have a similar background. How long ago was this? How many models did you work with?

I had access to a few models and it was trivial to cause runaway warming. It was naturally something everyone tried when they were handed the keys to the servers. I recall causing the oceans boil within a few centuries.